AC 1588 - "The Garden of Jehovah" and "The Garden of God"

AC 1588

The expression "garden of Jehovah"
is used when the rational is celestial,
that is, from a celestial origin,
as it was with the Most Ancient Church,
concerning which in Isaiah:

Jehovah will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places,
and will make her wilderness as Eden,
and her desert as the garden of Jehovah;
joy and gladness shall be found in her,
confession and the voice of a song.
(Isaiah 51:3)

But the expression "garden of God"
is used when the rational is spiritual,
that is, from a spiritual origin,
as it was in the Ancient Church, spoken of in Ezekiel:

Full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty,
you have been in Eden the garden of God.
(Ezekiel 28:12-13)

A person's rational is compared to a "garden,"
from the representative that is presented in heaven;
it is a person's rational that appears as a garden
when the celestial spiritual flows into it from the Lord;
and even paradises are from this presented to the sight,
which in magnificence and beauty
surpass every idea of human imagination,
which is the effect
of the influx of celestial spiritual light from the Lord.
The pleasant and the beautiful things of these paradises
are not what affect the beholder,
but the celestial spiritual things that live in them.